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<div role="main"><h1>Disabling the Build Automatically option</h1>
<p>By default, the Eclipse workbench is configured to build projects automatically.
However, for C/C++ development you should disable this option,
otherwise your entire project will be rebuilt whenever, for example,
you save a change to your makefile or source files.
Click <strong>Project &gt; Build Automatically</strong> and ensure there is no
checkmark beside the <strong>Build Automatically</strong> menu item.</p>
<p><img src="../images/cdt_autobuild.png"
 alt="Menubar showing Project selection"></p>
<p><img src="../images/ngconcepts.gif" alt="Related concepts"
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<a href="../concepts/cdt_c_build_over.htm">Build overview</a></p>
<p><img src="../images/ngtasks.gif" alt="Related tasks"
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<a href="cdt_t_manualbuild.htm">Building Manually</a><br>
<a href="cdt_t_proj_build_set.htm">Defining Project Build settings</a><br>
<a href="cdt_o_build_task.htm">Building projects</a></p>
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 width="143" height="21">
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<a href="../reference/cdt_u_newproj_buildset.htm">Make Builder page,
C/C++ Properties window</a></p>
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